CVE-2021-32798

high
Published 2021-08-23 · Modified 2023-12-06
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

The Jupyter notebook is a web-based notebook environment for interactive computing. In affected versions untrusted notebook can execute code on load. Jupyter Notebook uses a deprecated version of Google Caja to sanitize user inputs. A public Caja bypass can be used to trigger an XSS when a victim opens a malicious ipynb document in Jupyter Notebook. The XSS allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the victim computer using Jupyter APIs.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-32798

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed6.4.3-1
debian debianbookwormfixed6.4.3-1
debian debianbullseyeaffected
debian debianforkyfixed6.4.3-1
debian debiansidfixed6.4.3-1
debian debiantrixiefixed6.4.3-1

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
python PyPInotebook<5.7.115.7.11
python PyPInotebook>=6.0.0,<6.4.16.4.1
python PyPInotebook<79fc76e890a8ec42f73a3d009e44ef84c14ef0d5||>=5.7.0,<5.7.1179fc76e890a8ec42f73a3d009e44ef84c14ef0d5

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.